Marxist Quotations

I've always had a Marxist understanding of history: democracy is a result of a broad modernization process that happens in every country. Neocons think the use of political power can force the pace of change, but ultimately it depends on societies doing it themselves.

Killing the private property-that was the center of the Marxist economy and Marxist ideology. That was the center of the Lenin ideology.

Hillary Clinton bothers me a lot. I realized the other day that her thoughts sound a lot like Karl Marx. She hangs around a lot of Marxists. All her friends are Marxists.

I'm still a marginal figure living from book to book, but, as long as I'm producing labour as a good Marxist prole, I guess I'm satisfied.

I would say I was still a Marxist - which is not to be confused with being a Communist. Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else.

I promote revolution against the Capitalists and the Social Marxists.

China's headlong rush to industrialize was pursued with the most Marxist of prejudices - bending nature to man's will. That's a desperately hard trick to pull off when one fifth of humanity, having previously subsisted on 7 percent of the world's freshwater supply, decides that it wants to instantaneously increase its caloric intake.

We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the last one hundred and fifty years, is a definitely closed book.

Victorian feminists made the mistake of making membership of the sisterhood conditional on signing up to a particular policy agenda. Marxist feminists made a similar mistake of saying, 'You can't be a real feminist unless you join with miners, the unions, the vegans.'

Well you can be the son of a Marxist and not necessarily be a Marxist in all your views.

I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.

Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied.

I was brought up by a Marxist rationalist stepfather, so I don't believe in the supernatural or religion or horoscopes, and the absolute nature of death is quite helpful for me. My husband was there, then he wasn't.

It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

We thus see that the Marxist law of value is not canceled by the data of the third volume, but is merely modified in a definite way.

He's a brutal Marxist dictator. He's teamed up with Fidel Castro. He's trying to split our nation.

I went first to France and then to England where I studied and at the same time I tried to make a serious study of the basic Marxist philosophy.

Just as Marx used to say about the French "Marxists" of the late seventies: "All I know is that I am not a Marxist

Marx and Engels first discovered how the market system runs. So, it is not anti-Marxist. Rather it is direct and innovative implementation of Marxist idea of market system.

We had one Marxist history teacher who taught a straight Marxist view of history, ... I remember he once asked where diamonds got their value. Someone said, 'because they're beautiful'. He said, 'no, no'. Someone else said, 'supply and demand'. He said, 'no'. Someone else said, 'from the sweat of the workers in the mines!' And he said 'right!'

When I was a worker I busied myself with socialist or, if you like, marxist literature.

While I was there my life was completely changed by becoming a convinced Marxist and engaging in a variety of student liberal activities.

There will be no peace in the tormented world, only a programmed and systematic series of wars and calamities-until the plotters have gained their objective: an exhausted world willing to submit to a PLANNED Marxist economy and total and meek ENSLAVEMENT-in the name of PEACE.

If Marxist theory dictates that the personal is always political, the rebuttal of both 'The Americans' and 'House of Cards' is that the political is always personal: the sum total of our collective needs and desires, vows and betrayals.

A Marxist has never written a good novel.

All I know is I'm not a Marxist.

Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late 'seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.

Marxism is the opium of the Marxists.

In a way, all sociologists are akin to Marxists because of their inclination to settle everyone's accounts but their own.

It's not my fault if reality is Marxist

Children live in the only successful Marxist state ever created: the family. 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his need' is the family's practice as well as its theory. Even with today's scattershot patterns of marriage and parenting, a family is collectivist to a more than North Korean degree.

You know there are very few Marxists left in the world... they're all in American universities.